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<td class="v">1:1</td>
<td>Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.</td>
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<td class="v">1:2</td>
<td>We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;</td>
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<td class="v">1:3</td>
<td>Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;</td>
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<td class="v">1:4</td>
<td>Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.</td>
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<td class="v">1:5</td>
<td>For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.</td>
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<td class="v">1:6</td>
<td>And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:</td>
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<td class="v">1:7</td>
<td>So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.</td>
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<td class="v">1:8</td>
<td>For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.</td>
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<td class="v">1:9</td>
<td>For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;</td>
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<td class="v">1:10</td>
<td>And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.</td>
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